Outrate Online Short Film Festival - WINNER ANNOUNCED!
Oscar nominees, award-winning authors, playwrights and directors of gay and lesbian film festivals comprised our judging panel this year and as well, we gave away around $1,000 in prizes up for grabs.

One film took the first prize and the nine others took out awards as well. Find out all about it here


INTERVIEW: PAUL BURSTON
The ubiquity of bareback porn presents unsafe sex as just another gay lifestyle choice, no different than choosing between Calvin Klein or Aussiebum underwear. ... [more] [See all interviews]


REVIEW: MILK
Penn is one of those actors in complete control of his entire instrument. He uses voice, body movements, line readings and something indefinable within his own psyche to transmigrate into another person's body and mind. Franco, meanwhile, demonstrates the dilemma of a person who signed up for a committed relationship but not necessarily a revolution ... [more] [See all reviews]


REVIEW: SHELTER
For a gay indie, this is next-to-excellent. Kudos for a lack of any creepy voyeurism from the camera too, with just one fleeting glance from Zach at a studly surfer stripping out of his wetsuit, and just the very odd shot of the naked lovers, usually shot in close up and focusing on the emotion, not the pecs ... [more] [See all reviews]


FEATURE: GENET MEETS FASSBINDER: SEXUAL (DIS)ORIENTATIONS IN QUERELLE)
When the titular hero of Jean Genet's "Querelle de Brest" allows himself to be fucked for the first time by Nono, the owner of the near-legendary brothel La Feria, he intends it as a sort of self-punishment, a metaphorical death that will allow him to be purged of guilt for his recent murder of a friend and fellow opium smuggler ... [more] [See all features]


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